Shin Kanazawa

Shin Kanazawa is the kind of footballer most databases barely know what to do with — born September 9, 1983 in Saitama, 174 cm tall, and that's pretty much where the public record goes quiet. But honestly, that era of Japanese football has its own story worth telling: kids who grew up watching the J.League explode in the early nineties, when the whole country suddenly caught football fever, and a generation poured themselves into the sport with no guarantee of fame or fortune. At 174 cm he's compact, and I keep picturing a tireless midfielder who covered ground on unglamorous middle-table pitches rather than lighting up highlight reels. Not every player gets a Wikipedia deep-dive or a social media following, and there's something quietly respectable about that — just a guy who played the game because he played the game.

Shin Kanazawa is a Japanese soccer player born on September 9, 1983, in Saitama City, Saitama Prefecture. Standing 174 cm tall, he was born in the year of the Boar under the Virgo sign. Detailed career and personal information remains largely private or unknown.

Name (English)

Shin Kanazawa

Name (Japanese)

金澤慎

Reading

かなざわ しん

Born

September 9, 1983 (age 42)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Boar (Inoshishi)

Origin

Saitama City, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

Height

174cm

Occupation

Soccer player

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%87%91%E6%BE%A4%E6%85%8E

Tags

• From Saitama Prefecture
• Soccer player

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.